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8/10/2018

WIKE SOLICIT OSINBAJO TO DISCHARGE EFCC CHAIRMAN

Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has asked Acting
President Yemi Osinbajo to sack the Acting Chairman of the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, over the freezing of bank
accounts of Benue and Akwa Ibom state governments.

The two state governments raised alarm three days ago about
the EFCC freezing their bank accounts, and thereby crippling government
activities.

The restrictions on the accounts were lifted after many
Nigerians condemned the EFCC’s action.

“I am calling for the sack of the Acting Chairman of the
EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, for overthrowing a tier government. The mere fact that
the two accounts have been re-opened does not mean that a crime was not
committed,” Governor Wike reportedly told journalists, Thursday, in Port
Harcourt, according to a Government House press statement.

“When you freeze the account of the State Government, you
have overthrown that government. Without funds, a state cannot function. This
means the shutdown of government business at Executive, Legislature and
Judiciary in the affected states.”

Mr. Wike said if the director general of the State Security
Services (SSS) could be sacked because of the recent siege to the National
Assembly, then the acting chairman of the EFCC deserved to be sacked and
prosecuted for his action against the two states.

Mr. Wike said the EFCC, as an agency of the All Progressives
Congress (APC)-controlled federal government, went after Benue state government
because of the defection the state governor, Samuel Ortom, from the APC to the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

The governor linked the commission’s action in Akwa Ibom to
the defection of the former Senate minority leader, Godswill Akpabio, from the
PDP to the APC.

He said the EFCC was ultimately targeting the Rivers state
government.

He called on the Nigeria Governors Forum to defend the
independence of states.

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